Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Today's Quote "Fridays are not pants-optional." -- Bart Simpson Today's Links Webcast: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture and Oracle Exadataevent.on24.com Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012 Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET Speaker: Joe Meeks, Director of Product Management, Oracle Demand for cloud jobs is now stratospheric | David Linthicumwww.infoworld.com The small pool of experienced cloud talent will pose a challenge to employers and opportunity to IT pros. ConferenceBrowserFX...

In my conversations with IT architects, whether for the ArchBeat Podcast, or for my Oracle Magazine column, or just in casual gab sessions, the importance of communication and other soft skills comes up with surprising regularity. These soft skills are as essential for effective architecture as they are for the success of individual IT architects. Two recent posts on the Harvard Business Review blog come at the idea of soft skills from different angles. Each is worthwhile...

Today's Quote "I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for." -- April Winchell Today's Links Oracle Enterprise Management Online Forumevent.on24.com Event Date: January 25, 2012 | 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ETGet your questions answered about the different phases of the cloud lifecycle--from justification and planning to implementation, user adoption, and ongoing management. Learn about common challenges and how Oracle Enterprise Management keeps you in total...

Today's Quote "They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday." -- Robert Heinlein Today's Links Cloud Candidate Selection; Bite-sized SOA Governance; Fusion Evolutionwww.oracle.com This week on the OTN Architect Home Page. Software Engineering Meets Services and Cloud Computing | Stephen S. Yau and Ho G. Anwww.infoq.com In this IEEE article, authors Stephen Yau and Ho An talk about application development using service-oriented architecture and cloud computing technologies. Ev...

Today's Quote "Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday."  -- Ray Kroc Today's Links Oracle SOA Suite : import in xsl from mds location | Eric Elzingawww.xenta.nl "In one of my xsl transformations i needed to import a generic xsl from the mds store," says Oracle ACE Eric Elzinga. "For this I created a new jdeveloper application with a soa sar deployment." Engineered Systems for Retail | David Dorfblogs.oracle.comThere's a misconception...

2012 could be your year for MySQL mastery -- if you take advantage of this fresh batch of resources to polish your MySQL chops. MySQL Embedded Online Forum Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 9:00am PT / Noon PT Join the first-ever MySQL Embedded Online Forum and learn, from the top MySQL experts at Oracle, tried-and-true steps to take before shipping MySQL-embedded products that many ISVs/OEMs don't know about. MySQL Resource KitFind out why MySQL has become the default choice for...

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a three-part series recorded during the panel discussion conducted at OTN Architect Day in Phoeniz, AZ on December 14, 2011.  Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 These panel discussions are a fixture of the Architect Day events, and feature all speakers from all of the day's sessions.  The panel responds to questions from the audience, either submitted in writing, or, as you'll hear, shouted out during the discussion. The...

Today's Quote "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." Unknown Today's Links Virtual Developer Day: Oracle WebLogic Server 12c font-size: 10px; ">blogs.oracle.com Virtual Developer Days are such a huge hit, we just can't help ourselves. We'll be churning them out across 2012! Oracle Service Bus integration with Oracle Financials for message transformationsblogs.oracle.comOracle Service Bus integration with...

How to Build a Trusted Wisdom of the Crowd Model | Peter Reiser and Mike Briggsblogs.oracle.com "A key objective of a Social Enterprise strategy is to leverage the wisdom of the crowd to quickly find the right answers to question related to an enterprise business. This blog post describes a best practice called Onestop which was very successfully implemented at Sun Microsystems." Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum in Malaga, Spain (Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog)blo...